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Landmark Cases

Our team members aided the U.S. Secret Service in solving the landmark TJX & Heartland and Iceman cases.Read our case studies

Tools Repository

Our tools help you facilitate forensic examinations and assist authorized members of the law enforcement community.Access our tools

Research

Our research yields approaches for protecting mobile devices from malware attacks, leveraging social media to discover malicious activity, and improving automated text extraction and video exploitation.Learn more about our research

Digital Intelligence and Investigation

Engage with Us

Landmark Cases

Our team members aided the U.S. Secret Service in solving the landmark TJX & Heartland and Iceman cases.Read our case studies

Tools Repository

Our tools help you facilitate forensic examinations and assist authorized members of the law enforcement community.Access our tools

Research

Our research yields approaches for protecting mobile devices from malware attacks, leveraging social media to discover malicious activity, and improving automated text extraction and video exploitation.Learn more about our research

Our Mission: We conduct research and develop technologies, capabilities, and practices that organizations can use to develop incident response capabilities and facilitate forensics investigations.

Current tools and processes are inadequate for responding to increasingly sophisticated attackers and cybercrimes. The Digital Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (DIID) is addressing that problem by conducting research and developing technologies, capabilities, and practices that organizations can use to develop incident response capabilities and facilitate forensics investigations. DIID team members also develop advanced tools and techniques to address gaps that are not covered by existing resources.

A New Approach to Cyber Incident Response
In this blog post, Anne Connell and Tim Palko describe a tool that their teams are developing to provide the various agencies and organizations that respond to cyber incidents a platform by which to share information and forge collaborations.

DIID Collaborates on Computer Crime Cases
As part of the TJX & Heartland case, DIID team members collaborated with the U.S. Secret Service to collect evidence and create forensic images of the computers involved in the theft of over 130 million credit and debit card numbers, making it the biggest computer crime case ever prosecuted in the United States. The DIID Team also assisted federal law enforcement in acquiring and decrypting data related to the Iceman case, which involved attacks on computers at financial institutions and credit card processing centers.

Related Areas of Work

The Network Situational Awareness group has analyzed hundreds of cases of malicious activity on large, enterprise-scale networks to develop tools and approaches that help organizations defend their networks from potential attack.